Offering Free Reprint Rights-Why Would I Do That?

The point of writing and distributing articles is to raise the amount of traffic that your website receives, to establish yourself as an expert, and increase your sales. Writing and submitting your articles is not always enough. You have to make your articles viral.

A viral article is an article that you write once and distribute to the various article sites on the web. Then, ezine publishers, blog writers, and website owners in the same field as you will find the article and post it on their web page.

From those three sources, other people with the ability to portray your work will also pick it up and publish it as well. From there it just keeps spreading, making the sky the limit.

In the future, you could come across one of your articles on a website. You may have written that article two years ago and somehow it ended up on the website you’re searching. You may be shocked to see that the website owner only recently added your article to their site. If you conduct a search five years from now, you would be astounded by how well traveled the article will be.

This whole process of the article becoming viral will never happen if you do not take the correct steps to make it possible. This is done easily by including a notice on the bottom of the article that gives readers the permission to reprint the article free of charge if the article remains unchanged and includes the resource box.

It is really that simple. One tiny sentence at the bottom can change the face of your online business. To ensure the spread of your article, make adding the reprint permission to the bottom a required element of the article. Some people may be hesitant to copy the article because of copyright infringement. This way, everyone interested in copying the article will.

Submitting Your Articles

Once you know that your article conveys everything that you want it to, you are ready to submit it to article sites. These sites are sometimes called article banks or article directories. Each one will have its own separate rules for submission.

First of all, be prepared because most of the sites will require you to register. It is free so there are no financial worries. You may want to make a document that you can copy and paste from. It should contain your name, telephone number, email address, and website address, as well as the username and password you decide to use.

Before you submit your article(s), be sure to read the submission guidelines for each site. Many of the article submission sites will allow as many articles as you want while others will only allow one or two a week. Some will not allow articles done with software so do some research. It is very important to follow all of the guidelines because you may be banned from the site. You do not want that to happen because you will not be able to get any exposure for your website.

Your article will be published in its entirety on most article banks while others will only post a link to your article, which will need to be on your website. You should still use a copy and paste file to fill out submission forms. Typing in the same information can be tiresome and become pretty irritating. This way, you only have to paste the information or you can have software do it for you. Some sites will store your author’s information for you. You might need to alter this information to fit the subject matter, such as products or websites.

After you submit the articles, you will receive a lot of email. Many people start a different account for these emails. Make sure that you can access this account because during registration on some sites, you may be required to confirm your registration.